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The Iranian culture magazine "Aftabnet" contained a nice Klaus Schulze interview, called "With Suitcase in Shadowlands". (The "suitcase" is Klaus' old EMS synthi that he still uses).
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I like to point out: very friendly people, the Iranians.
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Here is a translation of the above's intro to the interview:
Music sounds have always attracted us and this has made musicians look for new methods of discovering new timbres and sounds. This is one the major reasons for birth of electronic music. Kind of music which based on technological evolution and various electronic devices has provided musicians with possibilities to create their own innovative and abstract music. At first, this kind of innovation, creation and experimentalism included only artistic music but later on, these methods and possibilities attracted many other musicians in Rock and Pop music as well and even led them into new genres. This division from the beginning, causes different point of views of each group : Electronic artistic genre and public genre. Before the presence of electronic music in Disco music in 80s, it was applied in Progressive Rock (which was based on classical theories) and Psychedelic Rock in which bands like Pink Floyd were pioneers or artists/bands like Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, Alan Parson, Kraftwerk and a new approach into electronic sounds was created and made electronic music genre which in many cases, got close again to its artistic form. Klaus Schulze, German musician, player and producer has a specific place in this period with his unique music ideas and a totally different approach. He who was born on August 4, 1947 has released more than 50 albums during the last 5 decades and is considered one of the most important and effective faces of artistic electronic music. Schulze is a smart, ambitious artist and of course with a strong sense of humor that usually causes him to avoid answering any question he doesn’t like specially when it comes to explain about his music in a very sweet way. In this interview, when we asked him about his reaction into repetition and cycling nature of electronic music, he answered: “Cycling? I don’t even have a bicycle!”

A recent interview with KS is to find here in English, and here in Greek.

...hier nochmal: die einzelnen Zeiten beim "The Schulze-Schickert Session"-Titel.

The release of LVE 13 is scheduled for the 26th of April. The track listing is to find here, where it belongs.

Die offizielle Klaus Schulze Website erreichte gestern (oder vorgestern?) die Zwei-Millionen-Marke an Besuchern. Und das trotz der immer mal wieder aufkommenden Unkenrufe von interessierter Seite, dass die Site altmodisch aussieht, langweilig ist, uncool sowieso, nicht auf der Höhe unserer so tollen & schnellen Zeit und vor allem: dass dies und jenes Gimmick fehle (z.B. könne man das so einrichten, dass wir zurückverfolgen können, wer da wann von wo auf die Site ging, etc.) ... und er, der Unker, doch der Richtige sei, uns die Site in diesem seinen Sinne aufzumotzen. Manch' Fans und Webseitenbastler wollen's sogar umsonst machen. Nett gemeint, aber trotzdem: nein, danke.
Lennart und ich sind durchaus in der Lage, all sowas ebenfalls zu fabrizieren und einzusetzen, nur: wir wollen das nicht. Wir bieten bewusst eine schlichte aber tadellose und vollständige Information, ohne jedes 'Bunte Allerlei' oder gar Reklamegebimmel und Marktschreierei. Und wir spionieren keinem hinterher.

Und wer Fragen hat, kann sie - wie bisher - in Briefen, Mails oder hier im Blog an mich stellen. Seit vier Jahrzehnten beantworte ich (fast) alles in Sache KS-Musik.

Finally, I also got copies of "The Schulze-Schickert Session" and I must say, the Russians did the best from the material that I have given to them. Günter Schickert will be happy to see his drawing in full size 31 x 62 cm (at least on the LP) and without any imprints.

And if you look 'inside the pocket' of the fold-out cover - after you took out the 180 gram vinyl platter - you can find again the same colourful drawing ...
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The two CD versions don't give the duration of the three tracks, so I give them here, again:

1. The Schulze-Schickert Session (45:16)
...continuous playing in six parts:
- Die Sehnsucht des Laien (05:48) = 00:00 - 05:48
- Hymns to the Night (10:20) = 05:48 - 16:08
- No-Frills (06:22) = 16:08 - 22:30
- Heart of Darkness (06:10) = 22:30 - 28:40
- Twilight Chill (09:30) = 28:40 - 38:10
- Blessed Twilight (07:06) = 38:10 - 45:16
... bonus tracks:
2. Spirits of the Dead (08:17)
3. Happy Country Life (12:35)

Bei JPC gibt's nun endlich die THE SCHULZE-SCHICKERT SESSION.
Die Cover von LP und den beiden CD-Versionen unterscheiden sich etwas: Hier die LP, hier die digipack CD, Und hier die normale "jewel case" CD.

We have them on stock: the Vinyl and both versions of the CD are in our warehouse. To be honest: the CDs in digipacks are even sold out, you were right about the quantities. So we should order some more from the factory. ... You will see, the releases look fantastic. ... In this week we send you your copies.
All the best, Olga ( ...see small photo )

The dealers in Germany, Italy, England, etc. should have them very soon. If they care. And order.
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PS am 18. März: Nun ist sie wirklich erhältlich, jedenfalls bei jpc. Amazon munkelt nur was von "wird am 5. April erscheinen" (ooops! mein Geburtstag) -- aber zumindest hat Amazon nun endlich das, nein: die Cover drin!

In the March issue of the French TRAX magazine (Le Magazine des Musiques Electroniques) are two articles about KS: "L'homme machine" et "Close to Klaus". The latter is from our French friend and film maker James L. Frachon and he writes about his collaboration with Klaus, from his first mail to me in 2005, via his filming for Schulze's concert DVDs, until his recent animated KS film.

"Das neue Album "Shadowlands" von KLAUS SCHULZE ist soeben auf einem großartigen Platz #64 in die offiz. deutschen Media-Control-Charts eingestiegen!!!" ...schreibt uns heute die Plattenfirma.